Natalie Rushman Quotes & Sayings

It is harder to be philosophical when you are young. — Eleanor Roosevelt

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces
quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence. — Herbert Lockyer

You will not become a saint through other people's sins. — Anton Chekhov

I'm not spiraling down. I could never spiral down with you beside me. You hold me up, Damien. — J. Kenner

Me and my friends get together all the time for girls night, or watch rock of love on the couch. I end up going out to a lot of shows, and surfing with my folks is always high on the priority list. — Tristan Prettyman

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive. — Ernest L. Boyer

Everyone's got something. Some people are just better actors than others. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits? — Richelle E. Goodrich

In one hour, the highest SES children heard an average of two thousand words, while children of welfare families heard about six hundred. Differences in parental responses to children were also striking. Highest SES parents responded to their children about 250 times per hour; lowest SES parents responded to their children fewer than 50 times in the same period. But the most significant and most concerning difference? Verbal approval. Children in the highest SES heard about forty expressions of verbal approval per hour. Children in welfare homes, about four. — Dana Suskind

In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon. — Marty Rubin

Her who whose beauty is not like earthly beauty, dangerous to look upon, but like the morning star which is its emblem, bright and musical. — James Joyce

Enoch was taken away so that he did not experience death ... . He was approved, having pleased God. Hebrews 11:5 — Beth Moore

Yes, Halloween excites me. That whole time of year, autumn, I find exhilarating. A passionate season. The others are so bland. In the fall, you see opportunities for change. Real change. Possibilities present themselves. None of the renewal and redemption cliches of spring. No. Something darker and more primal and more important than that. — Alice LaPlante

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something. — Wyclef Jean